{"id":108682,"date":"2020-06-14T21:04:30","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T04:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/can-old-vaccines-from-sciences-medicine-cabinet-ward-off-coronavirus"},"modified":"2020-06-14T21:04:30","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T04:04:30","slug":"can-old-vaccines-from-sciences-medicine-cabinet-ward-off-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/can-old-vaccines-from-sciences-medicine-cabinet-ward-off-coronavirus","title":{"rendered":"Can old vaccines from science\u2019s medicine cabinet ward off coronavirus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/can-old-vaccines-from-sciences-medicine-cabinet-ward-off-coronavirus2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is really old news:<\/p>\n<p>Two tried-and-true vaccines \u2014 a century-old inoculation against tuberculosis and a decades-old polio vaccine once given as a sugar cube \u2014 are being evaluated to see if they can offer limited protection against the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The old vaccines are oddities among the cutting-edge and targeted technologies being developed to combat the novel coronavirus. New vaccines aim to teach the body\u2019s immune system to recognize and destroy the coronavirus, but scientists are only now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2020\/05\/05\/pharmaceutical-giant-pfizer-begins-testing-coronavirus-vaccine-people\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5\" target=\"_blank\">beginning to test them in people<\/a>. Vaccines developed against TB and polio have already been used in millions of people and could offer a low-risk way to rev up the body\u2019s first line of defense \u2014 the innate immune system \u2014 against a broad array of pathogens, including the coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is really old news: Two tried-and-true vaccines \u2014 a century-old inoculation against tuberculosis and a decades-old polio vaccine once given as a sugar cube \u2014 are being evaluated to see if they can offer limited protection against the coronavirus. The old vaccines are oddities among the cutting-edge and targeted technologies being developed to combat [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}